Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.
- ISBN10 6612788313
- ISBN13 9786612788314
- Publish Date 20 January 2009 (first published 30 November 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 182
- Language English